Dr Smruta Shanbhag, Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncology
Dr Smruta Shanbhag
Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncology
Dr Smruta Shanbhag
Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncology
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The Harborne Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK
Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, B15 2FQ
About Dr Smruta Shanbhag
GMC number: 4732644
Year qualified: 1995
Place of primary qualification: Goa University
Dr Smruta Shanbhag is a highly experienced Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncology Surgeon, currently practising at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire and HCA Harborne in Birmingham. She is the sole consultant providing gynaecological oncology services in the private sector in Coventry and Warwickshire. Dr Shanbhag has a keen interest in keyhole surgery, including laparoscopic and robotic techniques.
Dr Shanbhag qualified from Goa University in 1995 and completed her post-graduation in Gynaecology in 1998. She trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Aberdeen, Scotland, and completed her specialist training at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. She has been a Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncologist in Glasgow for nine years before moving to the West Midlands.
Dr Shanbhag is actively involved in GMC exams, Royal College exams, and teaching at Warwick Medical School. She has several publications in gynaecological oncology. Her clinical interests include laparoscopic surgery for benign and malignant gynaecological disorders, and she offers a comprehensive, evidence-based, and holistic service from diagnosis to treatment.
Dr Shanbhag provides individualised one-stop services for conditions such as menstrual abnormalities, postmenopausal bleeding, elevated CA125, menopause, HRT, abnormal smears, colposcopy, vulval abnormalities, pelvic masses, and gynaecological cancers. She is proficient in British Sign Language, enhancing her ability to communicate with deaf patients and their families.
Dr Shanbhag consults at HCA Harborne on Mondays and other days by arrangement, aiming to provide a consultation, investigations, and a management plan in a single appointment. Her patients describe her as kind, compassionate, friendly, professional, and knowledgeable.
Areas of expertise
- Abdominal hysterectomy
- Abnormal smears
- Adenomyosis
- Adhesions
- Bartholin's cyst
- Benign cervical and vulva conditions
- Cancer prevention and screening
- Cervical
- Cervical (cone) biopsy
- Cervical cancer
- Cervical polyps
- Cervical smear abnormality
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Coil insertion
- Colposcopy
- Complex benign gynaecology
- Cytoreductive surgery
- Dilation and curettage
- Dysmenorrhoea (period pain)
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Endometrial
- Endometrial ablation
- Endometrial biopsy
- Endometrial cancer
- Fallopian tube cancer
- Fibroids
- Heavy periods (menorrhagia)
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterectomy (radical)
- Hysteroscopy
- Intrauterine device (IUD) insertion
- Intrauterine device (IUD) removal
- Intrauterine system (IUS)
- Irregular periods
- Laparoscopic (key-hole) surgery
- Laparoscopic hysterectomy
- Large loop excision of the cervix (LLETZ)
- Lichen planus
- Lichen sclerosus
- Menopause
- Menstrual irregularities
- Oophorectomy (ovary removal surgery)
- Ovarian
- Ovarian cancer
- Ovarian cysts
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Pelvic lymphadenectomy
- Pelvic pain
- Pelvic surgery
- Pelviscopy (pelvic laparoscopy)
- Perimenopause
- Peritoneal cancer
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Postmenopausal bleeding
- Pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS)
- Robotic hysterectomy
- Robotic-assisted (da Vinci) gynaecology surgery
- Robotic-assisted (da Vinci) lymph node surgery
- Robotic-assisted (da Vinci) surgery
- Salpingectomy (fallopian tube removal)
- Smear test
- Treatment-induced menopause
- Tubal ligation
- Uterine polyps
- Uterine, vaginal and vulvar disorders
- Vaginal atrophy
- Vaginal warts
- Vulva pain
- Vulval cancer
- Vulvectomy
- Vulvodynia